Mad Dogs and an English Girl by Caroline Waterman

Author:Caroline Waterman [WATERMAN, CAROLINE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780889535
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

It was morning. Seven thirty in the morning on Christmas Day and most of the guests had departed. Those of us in the house would have to sleep in relays as there were insufficient beds to go round. Great Uncle Jorge had been installed in Teo’s room and Teo planned to sleep on the floor.

“One of you girls will have to sleep with José Mari,” threatened Domi pointing to Anita, me and Carmela’s twelve-year old.

“Well I’m not,” said Anita firmly.“I’m not sleeping with him – and that’s definite.”

“You surely don’t expect me to, do you?” barked her aunt.“I’m not sleeping with a restless child. I need some sleep.” They both looked at me expectantly.

“Alright,” I sighed, “I don’t mind. Nothing could keep me awake.”

So Anita doubled up with Domi and I had no alternative but to share my bed with José Mari. The boy crept in beside me grinning sheepishly and not a little embarrassed; but no sooner had his head touched the pillow than he was out like a light and lay stone-still until four in the afternoon.

“We can sleep until eleven,” Domi had announced as she turned out the lights,“and then we must get up and give someone else a turn.”

As I nestled down into the sheets and lay, listening to the heavy breathing coming from the small, unconscious form beside me, I thought what a strange way to spend Christmas Day! I had resolved to banish from my head all thoughts of Luis and what he might have been doing that night. Every time such thoughts tormented me, I had just filled up my glass, deadening the senses a little more. Now, drifting into sleep, I still managed to keep them at bay. But once asleep, our unfettered minds go their own unruly way and that night, when I dreamt, it was not of José Luis.

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